Love it...easy to use. Customizable to my preferences. Thanks!

I’ve been using an old version of Compressor because one of the main uses I have it for is to author DVD and Bluray Discs. It’s been a couple of years now, but they still haven’t brought it back. I made the mistake of upgrading my MacOS to a new version where the old version of compressor no longer runs on. Time to roll back the MacOS install.

After exporting MXF format files audio has popping sounds like metronome

Worst problem I’ve had with Compressor is perhaps a bug because no other review seems to mention this. I was exporting a fairly large file and was surprised when I returned to my Mac to find system storage had ran out. Turns out Compressor had been creating massive temporary files but not deleting them. In fact, I couldn’t even manually delete them thru storage management, I actually had to access the hidden library files of my Mac and find the temp folder myself. Even Apple support couldn’t help me with it, they simply recommended I get a large external drive (which I don’t think would’ve mattered in this situation). Aside from that I’ve had some rendering issues with 4k videos where I’d get strange 3-4 second macro blocking in the footage. That could be a problem on the FCP X side of things, I’m really not sure.

my facebook/utube options is not showing up in my conpresser app

Easy to use…love it. Go Apple!

I'm trying to do the simplest task: convert screen captures from an iPad Pro from the defaul 60fps to 30fps and Compressor just renders black or green no matter the settings, codec, Source location, desination, or profile. I've tried coming strait from Apple Photos and the finder from unmodified original exports and Compressor doesn't work. Adobe Media Ecoder works, Handbreak works, but aparently Apple's own Compressor App just can't figure out how to do this simple task.

Barely used it but I’m writing a review because the APP store keeps popping on front of my screen asking for a review. There are a lot of options and I like being able to adjust the bit rate etc

Any time I try to use Compressor I get lost with the complicated UI. Things are non-obvious and I have to relearn what to do every time. Dragging and dropping a file defaults to a format, but not the one you drag too. Files are larger than my source file when I try to compress them. I can use Handbrake to quickly compress a file to a smaller size, but there are no default settings in Compressor to do this same thing. Creating a new preset is confusing and then testing it out is time consuming. I thought I could use the GPU, but it seems to do everything in software on the CPU. I wish it made more sense and had a way to reduce file sizes without jumping through hoops. You cannot successfully export with Compressor on your first try, but you can in Handbrake. If only the presets made sense, and the flow was sensible. It’s maddening when the file you get from compressor is 3GB and the source was only 100-200MB. Show me how to use this app …

I still burn DVDs, Dual Layer DVDs and Blue Rays. Please put the coding back into compressor. Just because something is old does not mean it is out of date. What harm is there in leaving the feature of burning DVD’s in Compressor. That is why I gave it a 3 star rating.